Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Alastair Campbell: Lot of people
“One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.” —Alastair Campbell.
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Carl Sagan: Pale blue dot
“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the…
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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Life, a library
“Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” —Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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Bob Dylan: Colleges
“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” —Bob Dylan.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr: Bottom of creative heap
“What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.” —Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Really intolerable
“You will, I am sure, agree with me that… if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Alexander Pope: Lay the old aside
“In words as fashions the same rule will hold,/ Alike fantastic if too new or old;/ Be not the first by whom the new are tried,/ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.” —Alexander Pope.
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Simon Sinek: Work ethic versus passion
“Work ethic is giving great effort to complete a task. Passion is giving great energy to progress an ideal.” —Simon Sinek.
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Plato: Three classes of men
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.” —Plato.
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Honore de Balzac: Vocations
“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.” —Honore de Balzac.
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Honore de Balzac: Look of pain
“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.” —Honore de Balzac.
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Ruskin Bond: Red roses, French beans
“Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships.” —Ruskin Bond.
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Abraham Pais: War rule
“One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don’t know anything you don’t need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.” —Abraham Pais.
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Omar Khayyam: Paradise enow
“A book of verses underneath the bough, / A jug of wine, a loaf of bread — and thou / Beside me singing in the wilderness — / Oh, wilderness were paradise enow!” —Omar Khayyam
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Andreas Katsulas: What’s better?
“Well, you know, what’s better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?” —Andreas Katsulas.
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Alan Kay: Brute force and thousands of slaves
“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.” —Alan Kay.
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Megan Fox: Baby talking
“I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it’s just so sick on so many levels.” —Megan Fox.
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Simon Sinek: Value of experimentation
“The value of experimentation is not in the trying.It’s in the trying again after the experiment fails.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alison Jackson: Photography
“Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can’t really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.” —Alison Jackson.
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Hal Borland: Suspicious of a tree
“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.” —Hal Borland.
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Marguerite de Valois: Cut the matter short
“The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.” —Marguerite de Valois.
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Stephen Colbert: Dreams can change
“Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.” —Stephen Colbert.
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Stephen Baldwin: Jesus isn’t a logo
“Jesus isn’t a logo, I’m not promoting some company, some brand. I’m just professing my faith.” —Stephen Baldwin.
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Edsger W Dijkstra: Computer Science
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” —Edsger W. Dijkstra.
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Martha Quinn: What you are willing to give yourself
“Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.” —Martha Quinn.
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Donovan Phillips Leitch: Softer you sing
“The softer you sing, the louder you’re heard.” —Donovan Phillips Leitch
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Dave Gahan: Surface
“You’re only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.” —Dave Gahan.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Burden of his tail
“The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail.” —Rabindranath Tagore.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Only music
“Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we…
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Christopher Morley: Heavy hearts
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” —Christopher Morley.
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Simon Sinek: Empathize, then criticize
“We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what’s wrong before telling them they are wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lance Henriksen: Corporate nationalism
“Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It’s scary stuff. It’s totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.” —Lance Henriksen.
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William Kingdon Clifford: Insufficient evidence
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” —William Kingdon Clifford.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Titles
“It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.” —Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Hatred
“Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.” —Niccolo Machiavelli.
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David Beckham: No time for hobbies
“I don’t have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It’s something I love doing.” —David Beckham.
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Simon Sinek: Best reaction is humility
“When we feel humiliated, the best reaction is humility.” —Simon Sinek.
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Joseph Heller: Injustice, treachery or bad luck
“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.” —Joseph Heller.
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Annie Dillard: How we spend our days
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” —Annie Dillard.
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Hosea Balou: Suspicion
“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.” —Hosea Balou.
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Jerry Seinfeld: Bookstore
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” —Jerry Seinfeld.
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Henri Poincaré: Thought
“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.” —Henri Poincaré.
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Frederick Maitland: Simplicity
“Simplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting point.” — Frederick Maitland.
